IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MALIBU
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999CA111002
  • User Pedon ID: 99CA111002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0342
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11201
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 34.1119576
  • Std. Longitude: -119.0720291
  • Datum: WGS84
  • PLSS Details: In an unsectionalized area
  • Location Description: 1/2 mile NW of Laguna Peak
  • State: California
  • County: CA111—Ventura
  • MLRA: 20—Southern California Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA674—Ventura Area, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 34119-A2—Point Mugu OE W, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Al Wasner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Typic Palexerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MALIBU
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, thermic Typic Palexerolls
  • PSC - 48 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/30/1999
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from sandstone and shale and/or residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent at 68cm with <10
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/30/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—48

    48—69

    69—152

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    35

    —

    —

    207

    —

    0

    409

    —

    330

    16.5

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    —

    17.5

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    A—0 to 48 centimeters (0.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine to medium roots; 3.0 very fine to medium tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P01769
    Bt—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) crushed, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) crushed, moist; clay loam; strong very coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine to medium roots; 3.0 very fine to medium tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P01770
    Cr—69 to 152 centimeters (27.2 to 59.8 inches); fragments.